Device for separating matter from a fluid containing the same.



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APPLICATION FILED OCT- 26.1916- JM @M Patented May 2l, 1Ql8.

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. DEVICE FUR .SEPARATING MATTERFROM A FLUID CONTAINING THE SAME.

APPLlcAnoN-,HLED 001.26. 1916.

5267,02@ Patented May 21,1918.

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y u. WEDGE. DEVICE FOR SEPARATLNG MATTER FROM A FLU'ID CONTAINING THE SAME.

Y APPLICATION FILED OCT- 25. i916 l 1,257,024. Patented May 21,1918.

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DEVICE FOR SEPARATING MATTER FROM A FLU|D CONTAINING THE SAME. APPLICATION FILED ocT. 26. I9I6.

1,267,024. Patented May 21,1918;

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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 26. |916- Patented May 2l, 1918.

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DEVICE FOR SEPARATING MATTER` FROM AlFLUID .CONTAINING THE SAME.

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UTLEY WEDGE, OF ARDMORE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB. TO THE PROCESS ENGINEER- ING COMPANY, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYL- VANIA.

DEVICE FOR SEPARATING MATTER FROM A FLUID CONTAINING THE SAME.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1918.

Application led October 26, 1916. Serial No. 127,821.

To all whom t mag/concern:

Be it known that I, UTLEY Winnen, a citi? zen of the United States, residing in Ardmore, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in De'- vices for Separating Matter from a Fluid Containing the Same, of which the following is a speciiication. l

My invention consists of means for separating, by gravity, matter from a fluid carrying the same, including in this category solid or liquid particles contained in air or gases or the heavier of two elements contained in a flowing body of liquid. The main object of my invention is to so construct apparatus for this purpose that as soon as the separation has been effected the matter will be treed from the action of the moving fluid and will be permitted to fall without disturbance. Further objects are to facilitate the erection of the structure and to prevent injury thereto if the fluids passing through it are hot or of a corrosive character.

`While my invention is thus of general application I have selected for. the purpose of illustrating it a furnace dust separator such as that for which I obtained Letters Patent of the United States No.v 1,165,351, on the 21st day of December, 1915.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a transverse section of the upper and lower port-ions of a furnace dust separator constructed in accordance with my present invention;

Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the end portions of the same;

Fig. 3 is a view similar to part of Fig. 1, but on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on the line 4 1, Fig. s;

Figs. 5 and 6 are perspective views of members employed in producing the structure shown in Figs. 1 to t;

Figs, 7 to 12, inclusive, are views similar to Fig. 8, but illustrating modications of my invention;

Fig. 13 is a horizontal section on the line 13.#13, Fig. s;

Fig. la is a perspective view of one of the members shown in Fig. 9;

Fig. 15 is a perspective view of the members shown in Fig. l0;

F ig. 16 is a perspective view of part of one of the members shown in Fig. 11;

Fig. 17 is a horizontal section on the line 17-17, Fig. 11, but on a reduced scale, and

Fig. 1S is a perspective view ol one of the members shown in Fig. 12.

The dust separator shown in the drawing is contained in a structure comprising side walls, 1, 1, end walls 1a, top 1b and bottom 1C, said structure inclosing a chamber 20 which receives the gases from a furnace 21, and discharges them through an opening 22 in the end wall 1a, the gases passing through the chamber in the direction of the arrow Fig. 2.

In the chamber 20 are disposed dust receivers 2 and discharge chutes 3 alternating with one another' throughout the width of the chamber, as shown in Fig. 2, and eX- tending from top to bottom of the chamber, as shown in Fig. 1, each of said dust receivers being composed of members 5 disposed end to end throughout the length of the chamber 20, as shown in Fig. 2, and superposed and vertically separated, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to provide between them longitudinal flow passages 9 for the gases.

In like manner the discharge chutes are composed of members 6 disposed end to end throughout the length thereof and between the members 5 of the dust receivers. Each of the dust receiving members 5 consists of a slab, plate, or tile of refractory material inclined at such an angle in respect to the horizontal that dust deposited thereon will not accumulate to any material depth but will slide by gravity to the lower' end of the member and will be delivered therefrom into the adjoining discharge chute. Each of the members 6 of each discharge chute is of rectangular form and has a vertical passage 7 therethrough, the members being disposed end to end, but not necessarily abutting, throughout the length of the chute and one or both of the side walls of each member being recessedat the bottom so as not to interfere with the tree delivery of dust from the receiving members 5 into the passages 7 By preference, each ot the members 5 has, at each end, a toe 8, projecting laterally from the lower portion of the inclined upper face of said member, these toes resting upon the end walls of the corresponding chute members of the course above.

member 6, as shown in Figs. 1 and. Each of the receiving members 5 also has at the top a flange 10 which projects laterally therefrom, in a reverse direction from the toes 8 and rests upon a spacing block or tile 12 interposed between said member and that below it, as also shown in Figs. 1 land 3.

Each dust receiver may consist of superposed and vertically separated courses each composed of members 5 inclined in the same direction, as shown in Fig. 7, inwhgich case but one side of each of the chute members 6 needbe recessed, the lower edges of the courses of one receiver registering with the upper edgesof the courses of the adjoining receiver, and similar chute members 6 being used both at top vand bottom of each of the flow passages I prefer, however, the duplexconstruction shown in Figs. l to 4l, in which each dust receiver is composed of members 5 disposed back to back, those at one side being' at a reverse angle from those at the. other side and the chute members 6 being interposed only between the lower ends of said members 5, solid spacing blocks 12 being interposed between the abutting flanges 10` oi successive courses, and the chute members G having both sides recessed for the passage of dustfrom the receiving members 5 to lthe passage 7.

In the construction shown in Figs. 8 and 13 the members 5a of each course of the dust receiver vpresent reversely angled sides integrallyunited at the top, the spacing blocks 1.2a in such case having inverted V-shaped recesses at the bottom for fitting upon the apices of the members of the course below and invertedl V-shaped tops for fitting against the under sides of the apices ofthe The chute members 6a in this caseJr are of cruciform cross section with vertical walls, the central longitudinal walls abuttingv at their ends and the central transverse walls bearing againstl the lowerends of the adjoining dust receiving members 5a, so that the chute is divided'by the longitudinal. walls into right and left ,hand vertical chambers each of which is sub-divided by the. transverse walls into passages 7a each co-eXtensive with the dust receiving member 5a with which it c0- acts, as shownin Fig. 13. i

Each chute member amay be divided vertically into sections corresponding to one or more ofthe lcourses of the dust receiver acljacent thereto, or each ofv said chute niembers y 6a may, if desired, extendfrom bottom to top of the chamber 20.

The chute members may be supported at the bottom upon the basel portion 1C of the casing structure, and said chutes may communicate atl the bottom 'through openings 15 withcleaning chambers 16 between the chutes, as shown in Fig. 1, or any vother deners, asshownatlfin Fig. 14, so as to bear laterally upon the members 6which thus` serve to prevent said members from slid.- ingylaterally., In the structure shown in Figs. 10 and115 the lower endof the member.

5 is seated in a notclrlSformed in the4 correspending member 6 and rests at its upper` end upon va .beveled shoulder at the top of the spacingblock 12.

In the modified structure shown in` Figs. 11, 16l and 17, the members 5 are composed of simple flat plates, as in Figs. 9v and`10, but the chutes consist of rectangular tubes 6b 'disposed end to end andclosed at the ends, as shown in Fig. 7, but having outwardly deiiected side wings 6c which serve both as supports for the vmembers 5 and to producev inthe sides of the tubes the desired openings for the discharge of material from the members 5 into the passage 7 of the tube.

In thev structure shown in Figs..12 and 18 each of the members has at thel bottom a forwardly and downwardly `rprojecting flange 8O at each edge, the forward edges of the flanges of the members ofone receiver abutting against those of they reversely inclined membersof the adjoining receiver, and the liianges of the members 5 of one course resting upon those of the` course below, as shown in Fig. 12, so as to properly support they superposed courses with intervening flow passages, and the,

flanges 30 extending sovfar below the bottom of each member as to provide the ,necessary sidel opening for the yflow of matter from the receivers 5 intothe passage `7 ofy the chute member. In this structure the re,- ceiving members and chute membersware integral.

When the dust A.receiving members 5, chute members 6 and separators 12 are of 4refrac-- tory material they are practically indestructible by heat, oxidation, or abrasion, hence the structure, once erected, will remain in operative condition indefinitely. rIhe various members 5, 6 and 12 can be laid as readily as bricks, thus permittingready dimensional expansion, and, if they are not cemented together they can be easily taken down again if the structure has to be dismantled in whole or in part.

In all cases the chute members tormbetween adjoining sets ofl plates 5` discharge passages 7 which, except as to the side openings for the entrance of matterinto said passages, are closed either against the escape of matter therefrom or the entrance thereto of fluid in motion from the flow passages 9, thus precluding any interruption in the steady iiow of said matter to the bottom of the passage 7 after it has entered the same, and the side openings of the chute are vertically contracted as compared with the iow passages 9 with which they communicate, so that, while of sufiicient area to permit of the passage of the separated matter from said flow passage 9 into the chute they will not permit waves or eddies of the moving fluid in the passage 9 to enter the chute, whereas in the separator shown in my former patent the passage between the adjoining sets of inclined plates was fully open to the flow passages between the plates themselves, and the fall of matter in said passage between the adjoining sets of plates was subject to constantl interruption, hence matter after separation from the moving Huid was frequently carried back into the same and had to be again separated.

I claim:

1. The combination, in an apparatus for separating, by gravity, matter from fluid carrying the same, of a receiver and a discharge chute disposed side by side, said receiver presenting a surface at such an angle to the horizontal that matter deposited thereon will slide therefrom by gravity into the adjoining chute, the sides of the latter having therein openings for the passage of matter from the receiver intoA the chute, and said openings being vertically contracted as compared with the iow passages of the receiver with which they communicate.

2. The combination, in apparatus for separating, by gravity, matter from Huid carrying the same, of alternating receivers and discharge chutes, said receivers being composed of members inclined at such an angle to the horizontal as to cause matter deposited thereon to slide therefrom, by gravity, and said discharge chutes being composed of members having vertically contracted side openings for the delivery of matter from the receiving members into inclosed passages in said chute members.

3. The combination, in apparatus for separating, by gravity, matter from fluid carrying the same, of alternating receivers and discharge chutes, said receivers being composed of members presenting receiving surfaces inclined at such an angle to the horizontal as to cause matter deposited thereon to slide therefrom, by gravity, and said chutes being composed of members having closed ends and vertically contracted side openings through which matter can be delivered from corresponding receiving members to inclosed passages in the chute members.

4. The combination, in apparatus for inclined at such an angle in respect to the horizontal as to cause matter deposited thereupon to slide therefrom into an adj oining discharge chute, said members having, at their lower ends, toes projecting from the inclined surface and said discharge chute having members with end walls upon which saidprojecting toes are supported.

The combination, in apparatus for separating, by gravity, matter from fluid carrying the same, of receivers and discharge chutes disposed side by side, said receivers being composed of members disposed in superposed and vertically separated courses with intervening flow passages, and each inclined at such an angle in respect to the horizontal as to cause matter deposited thereupon to slide therefrom, by gravity, said members having, at the lower ends, toes projecting from the inclined surface and said discharge chute having members with vertical passages therethrough, end walls upon which said proj ecting toes are supported and side walls recessed for the passage of matter from the receiving members into said vertical passage.

6. The combination, in apparatus for separating, by gravity, matter from fluid carrying the same, of alternating receivers and discharge chutes, said receivers being composed of members disposed in superposed and vertically separated courses with intervening flow passages, and presenting receiving surfaces inclined at such an angle to the horizontal as to cause matter deposited thereon to slide therefrom, by gravity, chute members having vertical passages therethrough, and side openings through which matter is delivered to said passages from corresponding receiving members, said chute members being interposed between the lower ends of said receiving members, and lling pieces interposed between the upper ends of said receiving members.

7 The within described receiving member forA apparatus for separating, by gravity, matter from Huid carrying the same, said member having a receiving surface inclined at such an angle in respect to the horizontal as to cause deposited matter to slide therefrom, by gravity, and having at each edge a toe projecting forwardly from the lower portion of the receiving surface.

8. The within described receiving member for apparatus for separating, by gravity, matter from iiuid carrying the same, said member having a receiving surface inclined at such an angle in respect to the horizontal as to cause deposited matter to slide therefrom, by gravity, and `having at each edge a toe projecting forwardly from the lower portion ofthe receiving surface andatthe top a flange projecting in the opposite direcv tion.

therethrough, Wallsfat the `ends of said pas- 10 Sage and'Wa'llS at the sides thereobotllof' said 'si-de Walle` being recessed 1 at the bottom to permit i"o\v^\ofmatterv from the outside of the member into the vertical passage thereof.'`

'In testimony whereof,` I' have si-gnedlmy 15 name to this specification.

UTLEY WEDGE:

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